The Washington critic., 1887-06-25
BURTON STOCK CARS.
Concluded from .frsI Uaod,1

heavier, and there they have n right TO
shaIgo more because they have got 70 carry
by the ton; car is rockoned as so many tons.
That Ia very proper. But when they borrow
party owning the car runs il over their road
they pay them the three fourths of q cent a
mile. Ny first idea was that we might possi-
"Wc never take cars, ,"-aud they undertook
cept the cars Of other companies, and this
man Burton Is not n company, Is not a CON.
mon carrier and does not come under this
section" got out the fact, after some dlfl.
pty that they had all Gaas Of how
all under one rule. II that Is not Just rule.
Jet them alter II for ever ybody. and when It
or let the Commission order Il Themselves for
everybody and We will agree to 1t. We do
q not ask anything on our account, or on ac-
the railroads.
A REMARKABLE PROPOSITION.
Then came Mr.. Greene with another very
remarkable proposition. ''Why," said he,
'if we run your cars, ours will lie idlol" And
he grew eloquent upon that. "How can we
administer our trust and not employ our own
cars :" Pardon me, you will not wear them
out II you do not employ them. This pay Is
for the wear of tho car, and the cars will not
wear out II you do not run them. We give
you the car to run without charging you any
\ thing, and we only want you to pay what you
pay other people. If you will not pay other
people anything for the use Of their cars of
the same weight as ours, for running them
back, we do not want you to pay us. If this
Commission will establish the rule that moth.
Ing shall be paid for the use OF cars on one
road by another, we are content, because that
will put us on an equality with everybody
else, and that's oil we ask What other pco.
| pie have we will be content to have, be II
little, or be 1t more because that is IN accord.
ance with the spirit of this law
With your leave, Mr.. Chairman, In my brief
| viii send you. IN order that there may be no
mistake in regard TO what we do want, ex-
actly tho form, or decree, or order that we
should like to have adopted. IL will do you
no harm u you do not agree with IL. except
the loss Of the moment of time spent in read
ing IT,, II ! were to formulate It here in a
word should say: All railroads are ordered
to give the same facilities, at tho same price,
to the Burton car that they do TO every other
sa phon nbl, tne Burton 9 PAYING
tho speed and very many other things
Now, may II please Your llonors, what is the
only other point that they stand upon The
only other point that they stand upon is that
they cannot haul these cars back. Where do
our cars gof Our cars are meant to go to the
fnrthest bounds of ,he country. into the range
district, to get cattle. Very little goes out
there ON those plains. am certain; very little.
Mr.. stone testified that 20 per cent. of his cars
have only 50, and that has been thrown at us.
think he might leave out empty cars, but he
has so many TO bring back he cannot, because
he wanted to put steel rails In box ears, I
suppose, in order to keep the steel rails out
of the wet. They are going to be laid out in
the road where they be wet, but 1t is bet.
fer TO keep them little out of the wet before
they are put down. Pshawl
KNOW LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT RAILROAD
and / would discharge q superintendent of
mine II he undertook to put steel rails In a
box car. There are two reasons for that.
The first Is, that each rail weighing so much
te5o), they arc very difficult to get in at either
end OF the box car; and the second reason Is,
that with platform car, by placing some
Ids on the side OF the car three men can
take rail, one man at each end and one at
The & middle Of M the % rail, and can pnt It right on
car IL Is best TO find that out before they are
laid down; They seem to think you don't
think Of You standing by and seeing three or
-four men take hold of a rail and attempt to
shove y in Its whole length into a box car,
platform car upon which three men could
throw the rails one after tho other, just as
fast as they could handle them There are
some things that men know without their be.
ing sworn to.
THEN lie CAME TO TIES.
He is most unfortunate there. They say
our model, which was the first model
built, is not as wi 10 by six inches
as we build them now; that
is by the schedule. But Mr. Burton testifes,
and there Is nobody. contradlcts him, that ali
his cars are nine feet wide In the clear, cn
the inside, and for the reason that he wants az
much room as he can get for his cattle. Mr
Stone never has looked at that car, and never
examined 1t In that regard. SO with ties that
ought to be eight feet long, sometimes they
are a little longer, when they are cut a little
careessly with an ak. They could be put in
crossways. but he never thought of giving our
whole srace to piling up those ties sideways,
running them athwart tho car. and getting 800
into one car, as against 4i8 in his, u difference
of 3iIa per cent.
LOADING CARS WITH LUMBER.
I was really amused when he said that the
length of the car was twenty eight feet, aud
next that II was thirty feet, and that was the
standard, and they didn't want any on their
road longer than thirty feet; and yet he
swears that he could put into them two piles
Of sixteen.foot plank, end to end. How can
that be done? They would have to be piled
on top Of each other at the ends, like these
books, wouldn't theyY lie cant put them in
~and TO end as he said here. In our thirty.
six.foot car he may do 1t. The trouble with
him was that he never saw car loaded with
lumber. j appeal to your knowledge, be.
cause you know about lumber Some years
wanted to get a fourteen foot board, when
We got near the end, we had to leave what
was called tho stub-shot, and that stub.shot,
sawed of and thrown away. We have seen
It in this shape many and many time But
now we saw all our lumber, especially In tho
through, and we save that stub-shot; that
board Is cut smooth at both ends. The tree
Is cut of from, the stump BY saw running
crosse and Is then sawed into logs. II he
has to put them Into thrty-four.foot ears he
could do so, BECAUSE they are only fourteen
foot long. But he was general manager. He
years, and he has not known ANYTHING about
these matters. He came from New Bedford,
fore any circular saws We're made
but that Is bagatelle. You may put 1t In
the order that whenever they havs occasion
to use our cars they shall be returned like
for the return, We shall not pay live csnts
s. mile for an empty car, when, at the outside
they pay only O little over two cents mile fol
the return. You see from the calculations
made 1t does not cost with full train ovel
their whole System but ono and fye-sxth,
cents pr mile 10 move train. II you will
Just divide IL or 20 cents for the engine aud
all that part of 1t by the number of ton,
hauled you Will see exactly what 1t Is.
MERE sUBTERFUGEs.
But these are mere subterfuges-my respect
for The gentlemen who put them forwarC
prevented me calling them doigcs-to hay,
you so administer this law as 10 make it
farce. | believcI have dealt with all tn,
qut stions with reference to the evidence thai
deem necessary, except one. Mr.. Greene
lid what some counsel do, but which trus
i never have done don't know but hay
in my younger days, but certainly do no
NOW. Picking up etterl He did not rea'
the whole of this letter Mr.. Greene talke,
10 on for five or six minutes, perhaps ten
and argued that this man was sending for
car from Chicago, and inquired II there wa
not one there loose somewhere, and Mr. Green
said he was answered simply that they hidn'
any loose in Chicago. Let me read the etter
II |. addressed to "Mr. Mcclellan, city" III /
Is, he lived In Cleveland This letter Is head
ed In Cleveland Ohio, "FTom the infOrml
tion get from our people"-"our people" mr.
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern peOpl
~ think You will not be able to get a Bnrto
stock car" That Is where he stopped From